In the tours on
the Raising Baby
Turtles page we have avoided showing our outdoor turtle pens and concentrated
mostly on small turtles, baby turtles, and indoor habitats. But just as
we experiment with unique how to techniques for aquariums and vivariums,
we experiment with techniques for outdoor habitats. We have already presented
a few ideas for outdoor habitats on the Raising
Baby Turtles page.

We have delayed
showing our turtle pens because TurtleTails.com is about turtles
not us. The more we show, the more we feel we are making TurtleTails.com
too much about us. That is not our intent. We do not want to appear boastful.
We do want to present ideas and techniques you may wish to incorporate
into your pet turtle habitats. So in this series of tours we will share
techniques we use in our outdoor turtle pens.

Our goals for housing
turtles outdoors are similar to those listed on the Raising
Baby Turtles page:
1. Provide healthy and safe environments,
2. Provide interesting and enjoyable environments,
3. Minimize daily and seasonal maintenance,
4. Have fun! In this case the fun includes gardening
and landscaping.

Before we go any
further, we wish to discuss what we call our outdoor turtle habitats. We
have always simply referred to them as "turtle pens". They can be called
anything you like such as outdoor enclosures or outdoor habitats. One book
we like refers to them as outdoor vivariums. It may be more fun to give
the pens place names and even name places inside the pens. Some people
may even choose to put up name signs. Remember one of our goals is to have
fun.

Like on the Raising Baby
Turtles page, there will be no particular order to the subjects covered.
We will simply present subjects as we are ready.